The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 8

He fetched some bread out of a cupboard, cut a round off the loaf, and spread the jam on it.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: fetch, cut, spread · To what, where: bread, cupboard, round, jam, loaf

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fetched	nsubj
2	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetched	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 cupboard	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cupboard	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cupboard	det
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fetched	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 round	det
12	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 loaf	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 loaf	det
15	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spread	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spread	cc
18	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fetched	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jam	det
20	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spread	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	tailor	some bread	a cupboard		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
2	cut	infinitive		a round		off the loaf	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent round=Patient off loaf=Co-Patient
3	spread	past	tailor not said here	the jam	loaf		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jam=Theme on it=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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